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I don't have sufficient context to write an accurate overview of "640." The context provided only indicates "year," but doesn't clarify what "640" specifically refers to—whether it's the year 640 CE, a historical event, a location, or something else entirely. I'd need more specific information to provide an accurate and helpful overview.

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Instance of
year
Part of
640s
Followed by
641
Follows
639
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Commons category
640
topic's main category
Category:640
point in time
0640-01-01
category for births in this time period
Category:640 births
category for deaths in this time period
Category:640 deaths

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Encyclopedic overview

Year 640 (DCXL) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 640 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “640” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.